Gas-generator.



No. 840,115. PATENTED JAN. 1, 1907. -J. D. DAWSON. I

GAS GENERATOR; APPLICATION FILED JAN.15, 1906.

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JEFFERSON D. DAWSON, OF BEARDSTOWN, ILLINOIS.

GAS-GENERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 1 1907.

Application filed January 15, 1906. Serial No. 296,119.

To all whmn it may coricern:

Be it known that I, JEFFERSON D. DAW- SON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Beardstown, inthe county of Cass and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGas-Generators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to gasenerators, and more particularly to that cass which generate gas by forcing air through gasolene.

The object of my invention is to produce gas for any and all purposes.

Another object of my invention is to provide a generator for theproduction of gas and to so construct the same that gas can be producedfrom air and gasolene without the agency of heat or any other meanswhatsoever.

A further object of my invention is to provide a generator and to soconstruct the samethat the pressure of air will be uniform into andthrough the gasolene.

With these objects in view and such others as may hereinafterappear myinvention consists in the particular construction of the various partsand in the novel manner of combination and arrangement of said parts,all of which will be more fully described, and specifically pointed outin the appended claims.

The drawing forming a part of this specification is a diagrammaticillustration, partly in section.

Referring by. numerals to the drawing, 1 represents an air-tank havingthe usual inlet-valve 2, exhaust-port 3, and pressure indicator or gage4. Connected to the inletvalve 2 is a pipe 5, attached to andcommunicating with an air-pump 6, the piston 7 of which is driven by acrank-disk 8, whose shaft is provided with a spool 9, connected to whichby one end and adapted to be wound thereupon is a rope 10,.having itsother end passed over two pulleys 11 and 12, and connected to a weight13, the arrangement being such as will operate the ump as the pressurein the air-tank diminis es, and thereby keep an even pressure in thetank.

Communicating with the exhaust-port 3 is a pipe 14, connected to whichis a short pipesection 15, having a hand-valve 16, by means of which theair-pressure may be shut off. Connected to the pipe-section 15 is apipe-section 1 7,extending downward ap roximately to the bottom of thetank 1 an connected to a horizontal pipe-section 18, closed with aseries of jets 20, each having a hood 21. The pipe-section 18 isinclosed in a gasolenetank 22, having a screw-plug 23, through which thetank is filled, and an exhaust-port 24, communicating with apipe-section 25. Arranged within the pipe-sections 17 and 18 is a pipe26'of smaller diameter and having its respective ends terminating at apoint in the pipe 17 approximately near the top of the atits free end,as shown at 19, and provided l tank 1 and at the mouth or beginning ofthe pipe 25, which pipe is connected to a pipesection 27, provided witha hand-valve 28 for shutting off the gas. Said pipe 27 communicates withthe gas-supply tank 28, from which leads the supply-pipe 29, havingbranch pipes 3 0 leading to the point or points of consumptlon.

Mode of operation: Air is pumped in the air-tank to the desiredpressure, which pressure'is maintained by means of theautomatically-operated pump. The air upon leaving the air-tank passesthrough the pi cs 17 and 26. The air which passes throug the pipe 17escapes through the jets 20 and percolates through the gasolene in thetank 22 and mixes at the exit-port 24 with the air which passes throughthe pipe 26, thereby forming a perfect gas which passes on through apipe to the supply-tank 29, leading from which are the supply-pipes forconveying the gas to the oint or points of consumption.

aving thus described the various features of my invention, what I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a gas-generator, an air-tank, a gasolene-tank, a pipe extendinginto the gasolene-tank, jets arranged in said pipe,a small ipe extendingthrough said pipe and gasoene-tank,the said pipes communicating with theair-tank, a gas-supply tank communicating with the gasolene-tank andsaid small pipe, substantially as specified.

2. In a gas-generator, an air-tank, a gasolene-tank, a ipe-sectionextending into said gasolene-tan r, a series of jets arranged in said pie-section, a small pipe extending throug said pipe-section andgasolene-tank, the said pipe-section and small pipe communicating withthe air-tank, a gas-supply tank having communication with the small pipeand gasolene-tank, substantially as specified.

3. In a gas-generator, an air-tank, a asolene-tank, means for fillingsaid gaso enetank, a pipe-section extending into the gasolone-tank, aseries of jets arranged in said pipe-section, hoods over the jets,asmall pipe for controlling the communication, substanextending throughthe pipe-section and gasotially as shown and for the purpose specified.

lene-tank the said small ipe and' pipe-section communicating Wit theair-tank, a JEFFERSON DAWSON 5 valve for cutting ofl said communication,a Witnesses:

gas-sup 1y tank communicating with the CHARLES A. SCHAEFFER? small plpeand gasolene-tank, and a valve STEPHEN ROBERTSON.

